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This might be a stupid question, but I had Reaper Flow Improver and with that I mixed one drop to one drop of paint, later I did one drop of paint for five drops of water.

How is Lahmian Medium suposed to be used and can it be mixed with water?

What do you want it to do? Lahmian Medium is intended to be mixed with layer paint to create glazes.

Razorgore111 wrote:
This might be a stupid question, but I had Reaper Flow Improver and with that I mixed one drop to one drop of paint, later I did one drop of paint for five drops of water.

How is Lahmian Medium suposed to be used and can it be mixed with water?

The best thing to do with it is to return your unopened bottle to where you got it and get your $4 back. Then, go to an arts & crafts store and buy a bottle of glaze medium that is like 10 times bigger for the same amount of money and use that instead.

In all seriousness though, it is pretty much a bottle of overpriced acrylic medium; paint without pigment. You can use it to make glazes or thin down paint. GW says it's great for applying waterslide decals, but you are better off using gloss varnish.

I use it with makeup as the added pigment. I pick the skin tone that I want of the model, and buy a foundation makeup kit that has base, highlight and shadow appropriate for that skintone.

Wet a brush with the medium, touch it to powdered makeup, blot, then apply to model. It's basically paint designed to replicate human skintone, right? Works pretty well on models.

It mixes with water the same way the paints themselves do - very well. Use it to make your own washes or really thin layers. As for ratios, you'll honestly have to play around with it and find what works best for you.

I don't use it much because my paints are already thin from being cut with W&N flow improver, but I tried it out a couple times and it's very good at what it does.

It's true that it's just an expensive way of buying acrylic medium, though. If you expect to need a lot of it, get a bottle from an art shop - I'm never going to need that much though so I'm not complaining.